Mayank Vishal Labh

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Between 2010 and 2015, annual oil production in the U.S. grew by four million barrels per day (BPD). Production dipped in 2016, but then U.S. crude oil production again rose by 1.2 million BPD between January and December 2017, to levels that haven't been seen since the early 1970s.<p>The surge in …

The global oil market is primed for a ‘violent’ plunge back to $60 a barrel as hedge funds continue to place record bets that oil prices will march higher.<p>The snap retreat after months of rising prices could lead to the biggest crash in global equity indices since the Brexit referendum, at more …

There's been no better time since 2008 to invest in commodities, according to Goldman Sachs.<p>Following a resurgence in oil prices last year, the firm's commodity strategists raised their price forecasts for the next six months.<p>"We believe the outlook for commodities this year is simply a …

People in the West, certainly Americans, have long had a fascination with the East, with many predicting an inevitable “Asian century” marked by economic and market dominance. I have long disagreed with the consensus on China and other Asian Tigers, and others are beginning to agree. Many problems …

At the beginning of February, President Donald Trump reportedly called his national security adviser Michael Flynn at 3:00 a.m. to ask whether a strong dollar was good or bad for the economy.<p>He was right to ask: The Trump dollar could strengthen significantly and become a global economic and …

BENGALURU (Reuters) - India’s economy is expected to have slowed sharply to a near three-year low in the final three months of 2016, as demand wilted following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surprise decision to ban high-value currency notes, a Reuters poll of economists showed.<p>Shoppers crowd at a …

Twenty five years ago this month, the representatives of 12 countries gathered in the Dutch city of Maastricht to sign the Treaty on European Union. Its claim to mark "a new stage in the process of creating an ever closer union among the peoples of Europe" looks grandiose and overblown a quarter of …

The Trump bump may be finally showing up in the hard data.<p>Recent data releases about the US economy appear to show that economic activity in the US has increased, following surges in post-election enthusiasm in surveys.<p>Since President Donald Trump was elected in November, various measures of …

In the last three months of 2016, Germany broke character. Its households—long thought of as fanatically thrifty—bought a little more than they usually do. In fact, for once, Germans bought more from abroad than they exported. Perhaps most remarkably, though, the country’s sober, responsible, …

In the unofficial market, the pound had already collapsed against the dollar. With the peg gone, the official exchange rate instantly plunged from 9 pounds to the dollar to over 15 pounds to the dollar, and four days later it was at 18 pounds.<p>On November 11, the IMF stopped dragging its feet and …

LONDON (Reuters) - Just as Greece and its international lenders are locking horns once again over the country’s bailout and the tasks it needs to carry out to get the money, economic releases are suggesting more tough times ahead for everyday Greeks.<p>As this graph shows - bit.ly/2lKVY1Y - the …

By Steven Kelly<p>In recent years, and especially since the financial crisis of 2008, the world has been plagued by a shortage of safe assets. As it became clear that financial institutions and governments across the developed world that were perceived to be safe in the pre-crisis era were overexposed …

Voters in Romania, Hungary and Poland are tempted by those who offer deceptively easy solutions<p>On 31 January, during an evening session that was suspiciously secretive, the Romanian government adopted two ordinances changing the country’s penal code. The measures were immediately seen by many as a …

Greece is back in the news, for all the wrong reasons. Wrangling between the International Monetary Fund and the European Union threatens to prevent a bailout deal by the time euro-region finance ministers gather in Brussels on Feb. 20. Both sides should acknowledge the efforts Greece has made to …

Economics (in general) is populated at its core by a lot of bad ideas. And these bad ideas have come to be accepted as the correct interpretation of how the economy functions and thus have become the basis for economic policy. This news shouldn’t come as a shock since I’ve written about this many …

Voting 7-2, the bank decided to retain its quantitative and qualitative monetary easing (QQE) with yield curve control program, keeping interest rates unchanged at 0.1% while pledging to purchase Japanese government bonds (JGB) so that 10-year JGB yields will remain at around zero percent.<p>It said …